This overview of transaction cost economics is organized around the "Carnegie Tripleʺ be disciplined; be interdisciplinary; have an active mind. The first of these urges those who would open up the black box of economic organization to do so in a modest, slow, molecular, definitive way, with the...

The organization of Electronic Dance Music (EDM) events has become a major export product in the Netherlands. In order to respond quickly to the new trends and needs, innovative forms of cooperation between producers are to be set up for the organization of exciting new events. A case study on...

In der vorliegenden Dissertation wird der von Vertretern der Neuen Institutionellen Ökonomik geäußerte Anspruch, ein umfassendes Fundament einer allgemeinen Organisationslehre anbieten zu können, am Beispiel der Transaktionskostentheorie hinterfragt und mit verhaltenstheoretischen Argumenten...

Metaphors are part of our daily lives as they help us understand the world. Economics, as other areas of knowledge, cannot go without metaphors. Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) – a prominent theoretical framework on economic organisation – is no different: it has been built on a set of...